New eatery, Beast and the Hare kicks off Beer Week with a celebration of beer and meats at the neighborhood restaurant. Acclaimed chef Taylor Boetticher (Fatted Calf, Cafe rouge) joins his protegee, Beast and the Hare chef Ian Marks...

What's with the bipolar songs? "I tend to be an introvert. So there's a lot of time for weird thoughts to develop in my head before I put them down on paper," says Dee Dee. "And it's really bizarre living in Southern California. It's that total stereotype of being...

Miss Kittin is rightly placed as one of the most revered and recognizable artists in Dance music today. Miss Kittin has become one of the most inspiring DJs and voices to emerge within the electronic music scene...

Along with the creators of the Tony-Award winning 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, City Arts & Lectures is proud to present A Spelling Bee for Cheaters, a benefit for programming at San Francisco tutoring center 826 Valencia...

Often descriptions of bands fall into the equation of "this well known group plus this other established act plus a few adjectives." But some bands defy this shorthand, offering something so pure & true that its roots aren't apparent...

John Andersson has been producing music since the early 1990īs and released over 70 singles under the Laid, Zoo Brazil, Cuba Computers, Nars, The Kelly Project, The Wiggs and Outcold names and has steadily carved out a reputation as one of dance music's most innovative and respected producers...

"Beach House formed in the summer, it was very late at night and there was a lot of heat. Their songs start simple and grow organically like tiny skeletons that multiply layers of necessary flesh. In the Beach House world..."

Chris Reed, also known as Plastician (formerly Plasticman), is a grime and dubstep DJ and producer from Thornton Heath in the London Borough of Croydon. Plastician has played a role in the popularity of the genre thanks to his participation in the Rephlex Grime compilations...

Bart van der Meer, AKA Bart B More, has quickly become one of the brightest new stars in the international electronic music scene. He has consistently been crafting dancefloor destroyers that have received massive support from prominent DJ's around the world...

Chinese New Year is a two week Spring festival celebrated for over 5,000 years in China. The San Francisco Chinese New Year celebration originated in the 1860's during the Gold Rush day and is now the largest Asian event in...

Gang Of Four is one of the most radical, and radically important, rock groups of the last 30 years. Their music, starting with 1978's 'Damaged Goods' EP, offered a danceable solution to the problem of where four-piece guitar bands could go next after punk...

Hailing from the icy tundra of Minneapolis, Timefog label boss Mike Gervais has been impacting the electronic music community since the 90's. In those early years he absorbed a splattering of warehouse parties, walls of bass, The Drop Bass network and their "Furthur" parties, a slew of...

Opel Productions has captured a unique slice of the SF nightlife with it's friendly cross appeal between clubbers, Burners and hipsters. Opel is the brain child of Syd Gris, the founder of the legendary Opulent Temple camp at Burning Man...

Considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica and recognized as America's oldest civilization, the people known today as the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium BC. The Olmec are best known for the creation of colossal heads...